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Hyping cyber connection

When in 2016 my spouse tried to get me to adopt a smart phone I told her that I already had a pacifier as a baby, that I hoped to live out my last year(s) head held high – not with my nose stuck on a tiny screen, and it’s ring being my command.

Turning me a smartphone
run-of-the-mill clone
good grief, I moan & groan
What’s next? A small drone?

Hyping of cyber connection
how’s that an act of affection?

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My body, the glove?

My aging body aches & creaks
as does Creation, what’s new?
Feeble eyes catch but blurry peeks
Soon I’ll be out of here, phew!

What if my body is but mere glove
of That Eternal Self High Above?

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Allure

Her searching glances sweep the room like a lighthouse beam sweeps the dark sea. Precariously contained in a dress much like the walls of a brimming vessel, she is abundant life incarnate. Her long, cast back, blonde hair flows like a ripe wheat field in a fair breeze. Her lightheartedness belies her single minded determination to plumb the depths of every admirer’s promise, courage and enterprise.

She’s wrapped in haute couture
a mere distractive detour
as with purloined demure
she’s all exigent allure

So if you can’t withstand seduction
your fallback may be harm reduction

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-harm reduction = a public health strategy that was developed initially for adults for whom additction abstinence does not seem feasible

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Chasing every canard

Unthinkingly the blowhard
old fogy and diehard
keeps chasing every canard
blown across his barnyard

He’s prone to swinging the axe
before checking out the facts

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-canard = an unfounded rumor or story; a baseless, usually derogatory story or report
-facts = as in ‘factual evidence’ – to be ignored when perceived as standing in our way